Thesis: The use of the dark and light motif represent how lightness is used to expose the truth and beauty while darkness is used to hide people and secrets. I. The sun is used to bring goodness to obstacles faced by the darkness. A. “But soft, what light through yonder window breaks? /It is the east, and Juliet is the sun”(2.2.3) B. (Metaphor) Romeo is in love with Juliet and sees her as the center of his world (symbol of east) Romeo was troubles earlier sun comes=happy C. "Madam, an hour before
comparing light and darkness to relate to the characters life and the problems they’re going through. The light and dark have both good and bad attributes. The light means that they can’t see each other because it’s forbidden, so they prefer the dark because they can be together for all they want. The light is also good though because light signifies happiness and good days, so the dark is also bad because Romeo often made himself an artificial night when he was upset over Rosaline. In Romeo and Juliet
In Romeo and Juliet, by William Shakespeare, night imagery is used to foreshadow the outcome of death and express the love, which Romeo and Juliet share for one another. This is seen through the poetry that is used to express the danger that also lurks in the darkness, which they are heedlessly willing to risk in order to be with one another. Firstly, Romeo is unable to truly identify his love for Juliet because it is hidden in the darkness, where he is unable to weigh all of the consequences of
Annuj Shah Mrs. Mills Pre-AP Lit/Comp 25 January 2015 Romeo and Juliet Final Project The strife of the parents of Romeo and Juliet was the reason for the love between them proving to be fatal. At first when Romeo and Juliet met at the Capulet’s party, everything was going well. Then a feud erupted between the two families when Romeo killed Tybalt, who was a part of the Capulet family. Romeo was threatened by the Capulet’s to be vanished from the city of Verona. He then escaped but their plan to
Orozco Romeo and Juliet Monologue This monologue is from Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet found in Act II Scene 2 of the poem. During this monologue, Romeo Montague speaks in the balcony scene, when, hiding outside of the Capulet's house after a feast, he sees Juliet leaning out of a high window. Though it is late at night, Juliet’s extraordinary beauty makes Romeo imagine that she is the sun, transforming what is dark into light. He is confessing According to Sparknotes.com, when Romeo uses
This could foreshadow what will happen to Romeo as in his inevitable death. Again with Juliet’s premonition that their love will end in tragedy, as she thinks she sees Romeo “dead at the bottom of a tomb”, Shakespeare could be implying the purity of their love but also the problems it causes for the people. However, in my own opinion, I believe that the premonition truly suggests that even if problems come their way, the couple will overcome them together, and it could foreshadow the events that
the play The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare illustrates the characters’ traits, not only through alluring language, but also through the names of the characters, for their names hold essential significance in the personalities of the individuals. Throughout the play, Shakespeare portrays Juliet, the adolescent daughter of Lord Capulet, as youthful and often compares her to astronomical entities. Her name originates from the Latin language in which Juliet means young and innocent
grudge. The play, Romeo and Juliet, consists mainly of the themes of love and hate, since Love can be seen through the points of night and day through the scenes of, Romeo’s introduction, after the wedding night and hate through the street fight scene. Romeo and Juliet, works greatly around the themes of love and hatred by using the points of light/ day and dark/night. Throughout the introduction of Romeo, it is identifiable that Romeo isolated himself into a world of darkness, because of his deep
it's audience. The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet embraces numerous loving relationships and manages to use the ramifications of these relationships
Heart of Darkness was published in 1899. This was just after the period of the colonization of the Congo from 1876–1885. This is significant because the book is representative of the era. In the paragraphs of Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad revealed the horror of the enslavement, the destruction and taking of the land, the terrible crimes committed by the colonizers